Lift slowly. Let your legs carry weight.

Don'ts

Don't lift if your back hurts.

Don't lift if you have a history of back trouble.

Don't lift something that's too heavy.

Don't lift heavy things over your head.

Don't lift anything heavy if you're not steady on your feet.

Don't bend at waist to pick something up.

Don't arch your back when you lift or carry.

Don't lift too fast or with a jerk.

Don't twist your back when you are holding something. Turn your whole body, from head to toe.

Don't lift something heavy with one hand and something light with other. Balance load.

Don't try to lift one thing while you hold something else.

Anguish is also highlighted and in many situations it preceeds reactive depression, i. e., it preceeds depression as a consequence of situation.

The person feels threatened in social situations or facing prospect of such situations. In feeling threat, he/she undergoes physiological reactions which prepare organism for flight in order to survive. Flight is one's natural way out in Social Anxiety Disorder because, according to his self concept, person has no weapons to fight off threat.

Although there is no physical risk, what is felt is at same levels of physical risk and can be as high as risk of losing one's life. It is a threat of psychological death, of no longer existing as a person, of disintegrated self. At a lower intensity level, one's impression is that of coming to suffer major losses.

Instintictively, person avoids threatening situations, i. e., avoids contacts with others. If alone or with relatives or with a friend, then there is no threat or it is lower. A natural consequence is loneliness of solitude.

Deadlocks – In many situations, flight is impossible. In other situations, inner force, in form of desire, of need, is very intense. What to do in such deadlocks? People find adaptive ways. Example: they develop behaviors in order not to allow that hostility – which they think others harbor towards them – to come to surface. Among such behaviors are common changes in one's tone of voice, use of auxiliary verbs, use of verbal conditional tense, milder gestures, verbal economy. Through such actions, they judge that they control hostility that they think exists in others.

Concretely, they begin to speak in a lower voice, use expressions such as "I wonder whether you could?", "Perhaps you might be able to", "Could it be that you might do this?", "Were it possible, I would like", and they develop verbal mannerisms, speak little, beat endlessly around bush before coming to point, and so forth and so on.

The person who is not able to make these adaptations or regards them as insufficient constantly feels that disintegration is about to take place. In other words, he or she lives in constant apprehension.

It becomes evident that dynamics of self-concept and self-actualization play a central role in Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder. To overcome them person needs to change these dynamics.

Ruy Miranda is a Brazilian Psychiatrist and a former University Professor. In http://www.social-anxiety-shyness-info.com he offers articles on Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder, and excerpts of his novel "The Saga of a Shy Fellow".